SURVEY ON PRODUCTION OF TRANSGENIC MICE
THIS SURVEY HAS BEEN CLOSED ON SEPTEMBER, 30, 2009
MANY THANKS TO ALL THOSE THAT CONTRIBUTED WITH THEIR RAW MICROINJECTION DATA. CONTRIBUTORS WILL BE CONTACTED AFTER THE ANALYSES HAVE BEEN COMPLETED
Tom Fielder & Lluís Montoliu
DESCRIPTION & AIMS
The International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) is conducting a survey of transgenic mouse core facilities for the purpose of establishing performance standards. The first part of this survey will focus on DNA microinjection.
WE NEED YOUR HELP! We are asking each core facility to submit data in an Excel spreadsheet from as many DNA microinjections as they can. However, data should not be pre-selected in any way, since this would defeat the purpose of this survey. Our goal is to obtain data from at least 100 different facilities world-wide. The more facilities that participate, the more reliable the results will be. Description of fields requested in the Excel file.
YOUR DATA WILL BE TREATED WITH THE STRICTEST CONFIDENTIALITY. The raw data will be seen by only 2 people (Dr. Lluis Montoliu and Thomas J. Fielder, both members of the ISTT council), who will be responsible for encoding and stripping all identifying information from each submission. Please do NOT send your data directly to Lluis or Tom. Please, read the FAQ file.
RECEIVE A FREE PROFESSIONAL ANALYSIS OF YOUR DATA! Each participating facility will receive a free, customized analysis of its data. The ISTT has commissioned the services of a professional statistician working in a research-based academic institution who will be responsible for the analysis of these data. This statistician has been overseeing a national survey of infertility clinics for several years, so is quite familiar with the issues in our field.
HELP US ESTABLISH STANDARDS FOR OUR FIELD. All facilities will benefit from having officially recognized standards for such measures as embryo and pup yields, rates of transgenesis, etc., as well as the expected variability in such measures.
Established facilities will be able to refer to independent standards in dealing with dissatisfied clients, and new facilities will be able to aim for an achievable goal. We may even be able to discover an optimum combination of factors that will allow every facility to improve.